Starting Jan. 1, trade sales for Microcosm Publishing will be represented by Abraham Associates in the Midwest. Bob Barnett at Third Act Sales will represent Microcosm in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Imprint Group continues to provide sales support in the western US, and Como Sales Co. will continue in the East.
Archives for November 2022
Tor Announces Dates for General Print Editions of Sanderson’s Kickstarter Novels
Tor Books announced publication dates for the “commercial editions” of the four novels that Brandon Sanderson first offered through his massive nearly $42 million Kickstarter campaign. Tor’s editions will release three months after each “premium edition” is delivered to Kickstarter backers. (Gollancz will publish in the UK.) Significantly, Tor is only announcing print, hardcover editions at this time. eBook and audiobook versions are only available through Kickstarter. Tor will publish quarterly, starting with TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA on April 4, 2023.
People 11/15
President and publisher of the Viking, Philomel, and Flamingo Publishing Group Ken Wright will retire at the end of January 2023.
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year
Amazon named their 20 best books of the year with Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin as the top pick.
December Library Reads
The Circus Train by Amita Parikh tops the December Library Reads list.
Bookselling: B&N Returns to the Upper East Side
Barnes & Noble will open a new NYC location at 3rd Avenue and E. 87th Street in spring 2023. Its previous location in the neighborhood, on E. 86th Street, closed in the summer of 2020. CEO James Daunt said, “It is very good news to bring our bookstore back to the Upper East Side. It was very sad to close in the depths of the pandemic and especially pleasing now to reopen with one that is so dramatically more attractive. We take over a beautiful building with an old-style character with which it is a pleasure to work in creating […]